“In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.” WayTryingMeanSaidWould BeFormTermRightsWillingApproachFilmmakerTrustedThey SaidSeeming Author:Sean Penn
“Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWellsKindMeanImportantSelfAliveStupidAttachmentRecogniseStaying Alive Author:Sean Penn
“It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.” WorldKindMeanCountryFeelingsHappensMovingNaturalMy OwnParticularStorytellingRatsInclinationNatural WorldForeground Author:Sean Penn
“That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.” IfsFeelsMeanLevelsPureRomantic Love Author:Sean Penn
